A revived plan to relocate the city bus terminal opens a key development site north of downtown.
It also presents planners who already are working to remove the Inner Loop highway and transform that area with an even bigger opportunity.
“You get a great view of the skyline from that location,” said Erik Frisch, the city’s deputy commissioner for neighborhood and business development. “It encourages you to go from the station into the heart of our community.”
The potential welcome mat — and future development site — amounts to three acres that extends from the Amtrak station to the Inner Loop. It’s where the existing Trailways bus terminal is today.
That terminal would be demolished, and a new one would be added onto the train station. The sunken highway that some liken to a moat would be replaced with an at-grade thoroughfare , creating even more developable land.
But none quite like those three acres.
